READER: Ms. Harris has it completely backwards: chivalry isn’t dead because women stopped demanding it – it is dead because women (or at least the feminists they let speak for them from the late 1960s on) decried chivalry as being sexist and unacceptable, even to the point of being discriminatory in the legal sense.

I especially like how she tries to signal that she’s not one of those horrible conservatives by casually bashing GWB at the start of paragraph four.

Bush always struck me as being a gentleman in spite of the horrid treatment he received, whereas I imagine that the only place Obama has ever held the door open for a woman is at an abortion clinic.

New Efficiencies in Health Care? Not LikelyIf the British experience is any indication, generic drugs and expert commissions will do little to lower costs Additionally, 97% of the British populations is homogenous unlike the US. Our diversity makes it even more difficult to have one-size-fits-all government-run healthcare.

READER: Ms. Harris has it completely backwards: chivalry isn’t dead because women stopped demanding it – it is dead because women (or at least the feminists they let speak for them from the late 1960s on) decried chivalry as being sexist and unacceptable, even to the point of being discriminatory in the legal sense.

I especially like how she tries to signal that she’s not one of those horrible conservatives by casually bashing GWB at the start of paragraph four.

Bush always struck me as being a gentleman in spite of the horrid treatment he received, whereas I imagine that the only place Obama has ever held the door open for a woman is at an abortion clinic.

New Efficiencies in Health Care? Not LikelyIf the British experience is any indication, generic drugs and expert commissions will do little to lower costs Additionally, 97% of the British populations is homogenous unlike the US. Our diversity makes it even more difficult to have one-size-fits-all government-run healthcare.

Sorry about the lack of posting yesterday. I was a chaperone for my first grader's trip to the Zoo. Hours on a bus filled with very loud 6 year olds. Fun at the zoo until the buses were two hours late and one broke down so we had to double up. etc. etc.

1. Illinois: The adjusted average income is $41,987, thanks to reasonably high average wages, relatively low state income taxes and a reasonable cost of living.2. Washington (state): The cost of living is higher than average, but so is the average wage and the state imposes no income tax. Adjusted average income: $41,456.3. Texas: Also benefits from no state income tax. Adjusted average income: $41,4274. Virginia: $41,1205. Delaware: $39,1056. Massachusetts: $38,6657. Georgia: $38,2288. Tennessee: $38,0389. Colorado: $38,02010. Minnesota: $37,721